This is interesting it’s a pair of shorts that use kinetic energy to charge your phone. Aimed at festival goers the shorts use the kinetic energy created by the wearers movements to charge their phone whilst they are moving around. Not sure the shorts are quite me but I might be interested if these were available as jeans.

If you ask people what are the things they cannot live without, you are sure to get a lot of different answers. Not surprisingly an internet connection came top of the list followed by television. Perhaps people have got their priorities a little wrong when you see that a cuddle only came third in the list followed by a trustworthy best friend at number four. The results come from a poll which was carried out on 2,000 people between the ages of 18 and 65. They were asked what the essentials of life were. A cup of tea made number seven and coffee number twelve. My favourite a glass of wine featured on the list at number fifteen.

I have often wondered where my four cats go during the day and what they get up to. We see them as quite domesticated but I have recently become aware that at least one is capable of killing and eating its own food. The others don’t seem to know what to do with a dead bird or mouse and see it more as a play thing. I would love to know how far they roam and where they go.

I found this experiment particularly interesting, it followed ten different cats putting GPS tracking devices and micro cameras on them to see what they did. All the cats had different territories, some stayed very close to home just frequenting their own garden, whilst others went as far as seven acres. I doubt mine go that far but I would probably be shocked as exactly what they do get up to.

I found this article interesting, it’s a call by the parenting forum Mumsnet to ban sales reps from maternity wards. From personal experience after the birth of both of my children I received visits from not only the Bounty sales rep mentioned in the article but also one trying to sell me a baby sling and another offering baby footprints. I remember at the time finding it quite intrusive, particularly after the birth of my first baby which had been a long and exhausting labour. I don’t think that women should be put into the situation where they feel pressured by sales reps when they are tired, often emotional after birth and quite often struggling to cope with becoming a new parent. I think in this situation Mumsnet have the right stance.

This is an unusual idea, it’s a home inside a trailer. Looking a little like a shed on wheels from the outside, the home packs quite a lot into a small space. It has a living area, kitchen and even a bedroom tucked away into the roof. Costing from £10,000 up to £18,000 for a fully fitted home they can apparently sleep up to six people and have a fully functioning kitchen, shower and toilet. It brings a whole new meaning to deceptively spacious.

This is interesting it’s a zero tolerance approach to dog poo which has been implemented in a Spanish town. The system involves parcelling up dogs mess and sending back to the dog owners who have failed to clean it up. The campaign has been a huge success and has seen a 70% drop in the amount of dog mess found on the streets. I wonder if something similar could work over here. I guess the main issue would be tracking down the perpetrator.

This is rather odd it’s a new method of losing weight which involves having a patch sewn onto your tongue. The patch makes eating solid foods so painful that you are only able to consume liquids whilst wearing it. It is claimed that the extreme weight loss method can help you lose up to 30lbs in just one month. You must be really very desperate to resort to such an extreme method and surely as soon as you begin to eat normally the weight just goes back on?

We had Russell’s christening yesterday. The little man did very well and managed to last most of the service without crying. He did seem a little shocked by the whole experience but I think it was mainly seeing lots of new people. Penny spent most of the service with the other children in the Sunday school but she seemed happy that she got to wear a pretty dress.